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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Cettie dies on _____________.

2. There is also funding for _____________ schools who meet their standards.

3. Standard Oil is the kind of trust that Roosevelt wants to do what to?

4. As a result of this trip, Rockefeller funds _________________ which receives a perpetual federal charter for the promotion of education regardless of race, sex or creed.

5. There are eight hundred _____________________ by 1910 as a result of the efforts of the GEB.

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when the Ohio Attorney General reading a book about trusts which includes a copy of Standard Oil's trust deed indicating that control of the Ohio company has been transferred out of state, in violation of its Ohio charter.

2. What is public sentiment regarding trusts by the mid-1890s? What happens in 1897?

3. What happens when the trust begins to lose its legal battles?

4. What is the Elkins Act? What is the purpose of a new cabinet department with a Bureau of Corporations? How does Standard Oil feel about this bureau?

5. What problems exist in Senior's life by 1903?

6. What does John D. for William Rainey Harper? Why?

7. Describe John D. Gates.

8. What deaths occur in Chapter Thirty-three?

9. How does Rockefeller support the field of medicine?

10. What does Reverend Augustus H. Strong want from Rockefeller? What does John D. think of this?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the 1850s, oil is discovered in Pennsylvania.

Part 1) Why is this an important discovery? How does John D. benefit from this discovery?

Part 2) What problems did oil also cause John D.? What might John D.'s life have been like if he had not gotten into the oil industry?

Part 3) How has the oil industry impacted us today? How have decisions and events of John D.'s day affected us today?

Essay Topic 2

The nation suffers a severe depression in June 1893.

Part 1) Describe this depression. How is the nation affected? How is John D. and his family affected?

Part 2) How does this depression compare to other times of depression in the U.S.? Is this one as bad as the Great Depression of the 1930s? Why or why not?

Part 3) How does the nation get out of this depression? What can we, today, learn from this?

Essay Topic 3

John D. is philanthropic.

Part 1) What philanthropies does he support? How and why does he support them?

Part 2) What do critics say about John D.'s philanthropic activities? Why do they say this? Do you agree? Why or why not?

Part 3) How is this desire to help others instilled in John D.'s children? How do these Rockefeller organizations help people today?

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